“God had a wife, Asherah, whom the Book of Kings suggests was worshiped alongside Yahweh in his temple in Israel, according to an Oxford scholar.”
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Yonah Acosta Comes Out From The Shadow Of Superstar Uncle Carlos
The 22-year-old Cuban, who joined English National Ballet last year, says, “Of course I’m proud to be his nephew, but it is difficult because when I dance often people don’t even call me by my name. It’s not, ‘There’s Yonah’; it’s, ‘There’s the nephew of Carlos Acosta.'”
We Lose Something When Encyclopedias Are Only Online
“With the disappearance of paper encyclopedias, a part of the Western intellectual tradition is disappearing as well. I am not speaking of the idea of impartial, objective, and meticulously accurate reference. There is no reason this cannot be duplicated in digital media.”
Is Technology Killing The Art Of Conversation?
“Worries about the effect of technology on conversation are not new; George Orwell bemoaned houses having a radio in every room. And this was no class of Luddites. Everyone said they were on Facebook and several were avid tweeters. However, there was unease about how email, instant messaging and texting had crept into the space formerly occupied by conversation.”
The Bilingual Brain, And Its Powerful Abilities
“There is ample evidence that in a bilingual’s brain both language systems are active even when he is using only one language, thus creating situations in which one system obstructs the other. But this interference, researchers are finding out, isn’t so much a handicap as a blessing in disguise. It forces the brain to resolve internal conflict, giving the mind a workout that strengthens its cognitive muscles.”
How To Build For The Apocalypse
Artist Chris Hackett likes to improvise with things he finds on the streets of Brooklyn. “Nathaniel Grouille, a television producer who produced Mr. Hackett’s most recent show, ‘Stuck With Hackett,’ for the Science Channel and is helping him pitch the new show, said, ‘There’s an elegant, design way to make things, and then there’s a Dunkirk, let’s-get-it-done-with-baling-wire-and-string way — that’s Hackett’s way.'”
Hipsters (Or At Least Hipstamatic) + Technology, A Match Made In Art Heaven?
The Creator’s Project in San Francisco draws artists of all stripes, and breathes creativity (and hipness) into a tech world that deeply needs it.
Screen Actors Guild Pension Plan Denies Fed Investigation Rumors
“The Screen Actors Guild – Producers Pension and Health Plans (SAG-PPHP) has denied reports of an ongoing federal investigation into alleged fraud, embezzlement, and cover-ups at the Plan.”
Young Architects Stop Waiting And Head To China For Jobs
“This is the expected global economic formula flipped on its head: instead of American workers losing out to the Chinese, China is providing jobs for foreign architects. Even more surprising is the degree of imaginative license that China offers, even demands of, its foreign building designers. With new cities materializing seemingly overnight, international architects are free to think big, to experiment with cutting-edge designs, to introduce green technologies.”
Ethel Winter, Who Danced With Martha Graham, 87
“Paul Taylor, who danced with Ms. Winter in the Graham company in the 1950s, summed up her versatility in his memoir, Private Domain, writing, ‘Ethel Winter is a many-pointed star — spiritual as St. Joan, lascivious as Aphrodite, flirtatious as Cleopatra.'”